A072887 The s-inners or non-s-aints, numbers generated like the Aronson series from the letters, specifically the s, in a generating sentence, "S ain't the second, third, fourth, fifth . . . letter of this sentence.".

1, 9, 31, 36, 98, 107, 156, 164, 210, 221, 266, 312, 358, 365, 405, 415, 460, 467, 509, 519, 548, 556, 564, 566, 571, 577, 587, 598, 608, 613, 618, 623, 630, 641, 651, 661, 671, 673, 680, 686, 698, 711, 723, 730, 735, 742, 749, 762, 774, 792, 800

Offset

1,2

Comments

The discovery of the s-inners was inspired by the mention of the Aronson series in Douglas R. Hofstadter's Metamathematical Themas.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..51.

M. J. Halm, neologisms

Formula

In blocks of 10 letters: saintthese condthirdf ourthfifth sixthseven theighthte nthelevent htwelfthth irteenthfo urteenthfi fteenthsix teenthseve nteentheig hteenthnin ...

Example

a(1)= 1 because the first letter in the generating sentence that is s is the first one, a.

Crossrefs

Cf. A005224, A072886.

Sequence in context: A294404 A298587 A054310 * A329651 A133739 A266397

Adjacent sequences: A072884 A072885 A072886 * A072888 A072889 A072890

Keyword

nonn,word

Author

Michael Joseph Halm, Jul 29 2002

Status

approved